
Brother Cadfael is a monk who specializes in herbal remedies.... and murder!
The Brother Cadfael series by
Ellis Peters is a very good example of an
historical cozy mystery. Before there were forensic pathologists and laboratories
à la CSI, many times murders passed as accidents. But not so while Brother Cadfael was around! He could put the Miami, New York
City, and any other city's CSI unit to shame! And, he did all of this using utensils such as spoons, knives, and bottles, not all of those television fancy fantasy techniques for him! Brother Cadfael could tell you the "who, what, when, where, how, and even why" facts needed to solve a murder or crime.
Katherine Hall Page
With a BA from Wellesley, an MA from Tufts, and a Doctorate from Harvard, it's
no wonder that Katherine Hall Page is now the first person to ever receive Best
First Novel, Best Novel, and Best Short Story in the entire history of Malice
Domestic!
Robin Paige aka
Susan Wittig Albert &
husband Bill Albert... Victorian Mystery Series...
Linda Palmer
Her young widow sleuth is a writer for a soap opera...
Stuart Palmer
aka Jay Stewart... His more famous series featured an older, spinster sleuth who
"works with" a police officer, who considers her both a friend and a nuisance.
This combination of female sleuth/policeman "friend and foe" was perfected by
early authors such as Palmer... in the 1930s!
Sara Paretsky
V. I. Warshawski series...
Barbara Parker
A New York Times Bestselling author, Parker was previously a prosecuting
attorney. One of this website's visitors recommended Parker's successful
Suspicion mystery series to me. I have yet to read her books, but have
definitely added Parker to my list of authors to read!
Robert B. Parker
I have to confess that I have not read any of Parker's
novels... yet. I just became aware that he wrote the Spenser (for Hire)
books, and also the Jesse Stone mystery series. I just saw my first Jesse
Stone movie and I am hooked!
James Patterson
Not Cozy... Police Procedural... Alex Cross, psychologist series & the Women's Murder Club series.
Both are best sellers.... Also, Patterons is writing a "Young
Adults" series. I know I have said this before, but I absolutely love it when
established authors write books for younger readers. I am quite
certain that both my son and daughter would have loved reading these books when
they were younger...
Richard North Patterson Can
you tell from reading his books that he was an Assistant Attorney General of
Ohio? Although he doesn't write cozies, I enjoy him immensely.
Beth Pattillo
Pattillo is one of the authors who pens a Mystery and the Minister's Wife
book. This series is unique in that each book is written by different
authors (some of the authors pen more than one book in the series.) Other
authors of the series include Diane Noble, Traci DePree, Carol Cox,
Eve Fisher. It is an inspirational mystery series...
Barbara Paul Paul, at one time, did not want to write a mystery series...
But that was before she started
writing either of her two mystery series: the Marian Larch Mystery Series
and the Opera Mystery Series... along with several Stand Alone mystery books
and short stories that have appeared in many anthologies...
Paula Paul (aka
Paula Carter) Paul, a journalist by trade, is the author
of the Alexandra Gladestone Mystery Series which is set in Victorian England. As
Paula Carter, she writes the Murder by Design Mystery Series which is set in Alabama.
Cynthia Peale Peale writes the Victorian Boston Beacon
Hill Mystery Series, which features a brother and sister sleuthing team...
Iain Pears: Pears
first got his doctorate at Oxford in Art History, and then discovered his
knack for writing mysteries which take place in the art world, and feature
Jonathan Argyll, a British art historian and dealer. Pears is not only a
historian and author, but also has worked as a television
correspondent/consultant.
Joanne Pence
With a master's degree in journalism,
it is no small wonder that Pence has an award-winning series that features a
journalist. Unlike Pence, however, her main character is a gourmet cook...
Sharon Kay Penman Penman (an ex-tax lawyer) writes several acclaimed
historical series. The Medieval Mystery Series takes place in late
twelfth century England...
Louise Penny
Penny, a journalist, hosted radio talk shows on the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation before deciding to write novels full-time. Her Three Pines
mysteries have won many prestigious mystery book awards... including the
Anthony, Barry, Dylis, New Blood Dagger, and Arthur Ellis awards.
Anne Perry
I haven't read any of her novels, but she has a lot of fans.
She has several British series to choose from...
Thomas Perry Perry (Ph.D. in English) writes the Jane Whitefield Mystery
Series which features a Seneca Wolf Clan member who hides people... who need to
disappear...
Elizabeth Peters aka
Barbara Michaels &
Barbara Mertz...
She has her doctorate (and a passion) for Egyptology. As Mertz, she writes
archaeological non-fiction.
Ellis Peters
aka Edith Pargeter... Brother Cadfael is an absolutely
wonderful series to become addicted to...
Also, Peters wrote a series about the British Felse family of detectives....
Rhona Petrie
aka Clare Curzon, Eileen-Marie Duell
Buchanan, Marie Buchanan... That's a lot
of pseudonyms/names for a Vedy British author of Vedy many series...
Nancy Pickard
Pickard has two series of her own: the
Marie Lightfoot series, and the Jenni Cane series. She collaborated with
Virginia Rich on the fourth Eugenia Potter mystery novel, and wrote the next two
books in that series.
Cathy Pickens
Pickens writes about what she knows... both she and her main character
(Avery Andrews) are lawyers and live in the Carolinas. Don't expect to find
recipes in Pickens' Southern Fried Mystery Series... for that you can get
reference a cookbook!
Rhonda Pollero Pollero's F. A. T. (Finley Anderson
Tanner) Mystery Series has been recommended to be included on the site...She
is not only a sleuthing paralegal, but a shopaholic to boot!
Suzanne Price
Price is actually a husband and wife writing team. They just put out their
first Grime Solvers Mystery in '07...
Sandra West Prowell A series set in Montana...
Mary Monica Pulver
aka
Monica Ferris & half of the duo who wrote as
Margaret Frazer for
the first of the Sister Frevisse novels. Ferris writes a needlecraft
mystery series and Pulver writes an equestrian mystery series.
Ann Purser Days of the week
mystery series set in a small, English village.... Now that all seven days
of the week can be accounted for, Purser is starting (Nov. '08) her Lois Meade Mystery
Series which will include Lois and her family and many of the villagers from
Purser's Days of the Week Mystery Series...
Ellery Queen Queen is the pseudonym of
cousins (Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederic Dannay) who collaborated on the
Ellery Queen novels and stories... While they used the name "Ellery Queen"
as their pseudonym, they also used the name "Ellery Queen" as the character
who is a novelist as well as a sleuth. And, of course, let us not forget the
very popular Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine which has been in publication
since 1941...
Monica Quill aka Ralph McInerny.... As Quill, the series is Sister Mary
Teresa, living in Chicago.....
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